André Pönitz wrote: > One of my biggest gripes with MSI so far is that it dead slow > (which is, of course, a very subjective impression).
Not so subjective when it comes to patching... VS2005 SP1 took 6 hours on one machine here. 30 minutes even to get to the EULA. Average is 2-3 hours. Much longer than it takes to install the product in the first place... There was a blog entry a while back where they explained what the problem was... to do with the way MSI does everything in memory IIRC - it can't stream a large patch from disk so you end up with your machine mostly in swap (650mb for the patch + working space for the transformations on a 32bit machine is getting close to the limits). Tony ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
